Comments on: What was San Jose Thinking??????

By: LeafsRule110

LeafsRule110 — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 22:37:36 +0000

WOW HABS FANS DREAMING AGAIN………

By: libralounge

libralounge — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 08:08:37 +0000

yes…gainey did fleece san jose on this trade!he probably should keep souray (even if he is this season's mc cabe) because along with koivu he's one of the few players on the habs with heart. turf samsonov and kovalev for guys that want to play for mtl.

By: EasternHockey

EasternHockey — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 02:27:01 +0000

Sorry, Samsonov hasn't really been doing much. Odd, how he wasn't playing last night (what was the excuse, he has a cold?).

Anyways, the 1st round pick from San Jose isn't that great, since it was previously acquired from New Jersey.

By: rojoke

rojoke — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 00:42:27 +0000

They can sign a 25-goal forward for less than $5 million a year. But his name is Michael Ryder (still has an outside shot at 30 goals) and as many people want him dealt as Souray.

By: darcysucker

darcysucker — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 18:27:54 +0000

You're right, I forgot about Valentko, he was awesome at the World Juniors, hopefully Emellin can do well, he's a Kaspiritis type guy, and so is Valentko, what we lack is a good offensive defenseman, but we have a few with the big club and they're pretty young. But you can't expect these guys to be great, the only one who has potential for greatness is Fisher

By: habby102

habby102 — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 18:02:11 +0000

Gainey is a very smart GM and business man who knows when to cut his losses and his dead weight (i.e. Ribeiro, Rivet, and soon to be Kovalev) He was about to do that with Samsonov (not that he isn't anymore) but then Samsonov started playing better and is finally contributing to the team. I think Gainey will land a good scoring forward while using either Samsonov or Kovalev for bait. The idea being maybe a one for one deal forward for forward that maybe a change in scenery wil ejuvenate these underachievers (Guerin for samsonov/kovalev, zherdev for samsonov/kovalev?) Gainey WILL do something. He came through by cutting the dead weight at last years deadline (BYE BYE THEO!) which is looking to be one of the best trades of that year. Gainey will come through for the Habs and the city, who's hopes are with him.

IN BOB WE TRUST!

By: EasternHockey

EasternHockey — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 17:53:16 +0000

Bob Gainey is very good of getting rid of dead weight… but I'd like to see him make an actual decent exchange.

By: mtlfan11

mtlfan11 — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 17:42:36 +0000

The Habs have two options before the deadline

1. They keep Souray and they try to sign him in the summer but his good friend and buisness partner told le Journal de Montréal that Souray had always waited to test the market to know his real value and his daughter lives in California and he wants to see her more frequently which is very normal I think. So keep Souray for the playoffs and loose him in the summer.

2. They trade Souray because his value very high. If we got a 1st rounder and Gorges for Rivet, what can we get for Souray? Anaheim wants him... Why not? Bobby Ryan? Ryan Getzlaf? Corey Perry? Imagine Anaheim... Pronger, Niedermayer, Souray, Beauchemin....

Bob Gainey and Pierre Boivin told the fans all the year they'll go for the cup in 2009. If Gainey finds somedy that is willing to pay the price... Souray will leave Mtl.

By: mtlfan11

mtlfan11 — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 17:31:44 +0000

Alexei Emelin is coming from Russia next year and he'll play with the team… There's also Pavel Valentenko doing well in Russia this year…

By: mtlfan11

mtlfan11 — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 17:29:19 +0000

In exchange of Craig Rivet we got a 1st rounder and Josh Gorges...
In exchange of Ladislav Nagy Dallas got a 1st rounder and Mathias Tjarnqvist.

Who would you take first in your team....Nagy or Rivet?

In Bob We Trust